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It's a giant stew. Another question is why do you love who you love so much? Sometimes there's no one size-fits-all reason. Sometimes there is no logical reason. Likewise, figuring out hate is just as difficult.

Some people feel like they're entitled to more, while others do need more. There's the underlying issue of distrust and paranoia. All are factors we use to survive, so it isn't neccesarily evil despite its connotations.

Simple scenario. You push the elevator button to call it. Another guy comes by for the same elevator and despite him seeing you push it, he pushes it again. In that other guy's head he doesn't know who you are or your level of competence, so he does that action to give him a piece of mind and control.

There's no competition or hate invovled, he doesn't know what you're thinking or who you are so he acts accordingly.

But what if you were likeminded with other people in terms of culture and tradition? In some sense, that too is a way of survival and passing along your mark to future generations. So you might force your children to do the same things. Or you might protest against foreign influences that are a threat to your way of life. That might help open the door to labeling outsiders and giving stereotypes to other groups.

Then there's other compounding factors like love and hate. If you loved your family enough, would you go to lengths to kill or gain material wealth at other people's expense? If you loved your country enough, would you be willing to die for it? Your religion? Your way of life? So would it seem that it takes some degree of love to equally hate. Add that with a general sense of paranoia and distrust, you're seeing boogeymen left and right.

So it begins to sound cynical and every person prescribes to their different philosophies. But why not overcome it to share and respect your common man? Well take a war where we haven't been attacked or doesn't directly affect our borders. Why do we kill our common man when no harm is directed at us? Where's the difference? It's someone telling us we're at war through an abstract concept. Doesn't that feel insane to think that at another time, the man you just knived could be your drinking partner?

And that is what some adults feel, the idea that they're at War with others. In war, political and economic ends matter just as much as the physical. Is there a logical reason for that? There doesn't have to be one.